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IAS OFFICERS PROPOSE DEVELOPMENT IDEAS TO PM
The IAS officers of the 2013 batch interacted with the PM at the end of their three month stint with the Government of India. This is the first time that the IAS officers have worked with the Central...
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‘THE WORLD WILL ONE DAY BE OURS,’ CLAIMS RICHARD DAWKINS, HEAD OF CRISIS
Editor’s note: Newslaundry is the first news organisation to track down and interview the recalcitrant Richard Dawkins, head of the dreaded CRISIS, Confederacy of Rationalists Indoctrinating Science...
View ArticleWHO IS A LIBERAL AND CAN ONE EVER BE AN ADARSH LIBERAL?
“You like Justin Bieber?!?” “Bas Kijiye Bahut Ho Gaya Award goes to Ram Gopal Varma.” “Dafuq is she wearing? Fashion disaster!” “I doubt your intelligence when you write lyk dis n think itz so kewl....
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SIX REASONS WHY THE MEDIA SHOULD STOP PUBLISHING OPINION AND EXIT POLLS
“NDA leads with 275,” said the cover of Outlook magazine in April 2004. The National Democratic Alliance, or NDA, lost that election, and the magazine declared in its subsequent issue that it would...
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FINANCING TERROR: WHAT’S KEEPING ISIS FINANCIALLY AFLOAT?
Disclaimer : The information, ideas or opinions appearing in this article are those of the author and do not reflect the views of Newslaundry.com. Newslaundry.com does not assume any responsibility or...
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THROUGH NOVEMBER, PUNJAB FARM FIRES IMPERIL DELHI’S AIR
Image credit: Rokas Tenys Since September 2015, an ecological and public health disaster has been unfolding in Indonesia, as fires burn out of control. Such fires spread a haze over the region every...
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THE NEWSLAUNDRY NOODLE COOK-OFF: NESTLE’S MAGGI NOODLES VERSUS PATANJALI’S...
Welcome to the ultimate cook-off. Introducing contestant number one, the reigning champ: Nestle’s Maggi noodles. And contestant number two, the newbie: Patanjali’s Atta noodles. It’s going to be a...
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INTERESTING STATISTICS FROM THE 7TH PAY COMMISSION REPORT – PART 1
The Seventh Central Pay Commission(CPC) submitted its report recently. Among other things, it fixed the minimum pay in the central government at Rs 18,000/- and the maximum pay at Rs 2,25,000 at the...
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INTERESTING STATISTICS FROM THE 7TH PAY COMMISSION REPORT – PART 2
The Part 1 of this series looked at the number of vacancies, number of employees in various ministries/departments and number of employees by different categories in Government of India. Below are a...
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MAHARASHTRA MOST INDEBTED, TAMIL NADU GATHERING DEBT FASTEST
India’s most industrialised state, Maharashtra, has the largest debt of Rs 338,730 crore ($51 billion) among India’s states, but the southern state of Tamil Nadu—an industrial growth centre—has seen...
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STEPPING INTO PAHLAJ NIHALANI’S SHOES: A FEW SANSKAARI CUTS FOR FILMS HE...
In a recent interview with Mumbai Mirror, the Central Board of Film Certification chief Pahlaj Nihalani expressed his disdain for people who want to “do sex” in the house with open doors, and added...
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GLOBAL SUMMITS: WHERE ARE WE GOING? – EPISODE -7: WTO CURTAIN RAISER
Development writer and international-negotiations watcher Biraj Swain talks to Leena Meghaney of Medicines Sans Frontiers, Pradeep S Mehta of Consumer Unity Trust Society, political commentator and...
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RIL IS ACCUSED OF PLANTING STORIES AGAINST A RIVAL. WHY IS THIS NOT NEWS FOR...
On November 23, 2015, the Mumbai edition of The Economic Times carried a story that revived memories of perhaps the most well-known corporate battles the country has witnessed – between the Wadias and...
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CONVERSATIONS WITH RAMNATH GOENKA AWARDEES: ON THE PERILS OF INVESTIGATIVE...
Raman Kirpal, associate editor, DNA and Hakeem Irfan, who is currently principal correspondent at The Economic Times, received the Ramnath Goenka Award for Best Investigative Reporting (Print) for...
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WHY 781 INDIANS NEEDLESSLY DIE EVERY WINTER
ZIGROUP-CREATIONS / Shutterstock.com As many as 10,933 Indians (an average of 781 per year) have died over the past 14 years–between 2001 to 2014–due to “cold and exposure”, an analysis of statistics...
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CONVERSATIONS WITH RAMNATH GOENKA AWARDEES: INTERVIEWING ‘NIRBHAYA’S’ FRIEND
Sudhir Chaudhary, Editor, Zee News, won the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence for his interview with Awindra Pandey, friend of Jyoti Singh, the December 16 gangrape victim. Over a telephone...
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NL HAFTA – EPISODE 43
R Jagannathan, former Editor-in-Chief at Firstpost, joins us this week as we discuss Aamir Khan’s statements at the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards and the media coverage they received....
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WHAT WAS FACEBOOK THINKING WHEN IT BLOCKED THE ACCOUNT OF KERALA JOURNALIST...
On October 24, The News Minute reported on a Kerala-based journalist, VP Rajeena’s Facebook account being blocked, following a post she had written about her classmates at a Madrassa being subjected...
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CONVERSATIONS WITH RAMNATH GOENKA AWARDEES: ‘TALK TO PEOPLE NOT JUST...
Supriya Sharma, News Editor, Scroll.in, won the award for best reporting on politics and governance for her series Window Seat. Sharma undertook a train journey from Guwahati to Jammu ahead of the...
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